Answers to A Beastly Quiz
- Quizzes
- Answers: Ten Lords a’Leaping
- Answers: Regency Slang #1
- Answers: A Regency Christmas
- Answers: A Christmas Carol
- Answers: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Georgette Heyer
- Answers: The Winter Bride
- Answers: Regency Slang #2
- Answers to A New Word Wench
- Quiz — My Book Boyfriends
- English Names
- Answers to A Regency Christmas Quiz #2
- Answers to An Impossible Quiz
- Answers to Regency Slang Quiz No. #4
- Answers to “Ten lords a’leaping” quiz Number 2
- Answers to the quiz: Regency Slang with Food & Drink
- Answers to A Beastly Quiz
- Scoundrel’s Daughter — the pre-publication quiz
- Answers to Christmas Quiz #3
- Answers to the Quiz on The Rake’s Daughter.
- Answers to Another Christmas Quiz
- Answers to the Novels of Georgette Heyer Quiz
- Georgette Heyer Quiz #2 — the answers
A Beastly Quiz — more Regency slang
(From the quiz on the Word Wenches’ Page)
1) To cock up one’s toes means:— b) to die
2) Done to a cow’s thumb means:— a) to be exhausted
3) A bear leader is a person who:— c) takes schoolboys on tours (It was particularly used to describe the tutors who accompanied young men (the sons of rich men) on The Grand Tour. )
4) An ape leader is:— a) a spinster (It was said of women who failed to marry and procreate that they would end up in hell, leading apes. Nasty, eh?)
5) To be cock-a-hoop is:— d) to be in high spirits (It’s a bit like “to be over the moon”.)
6) A chicken nabob is:— b) a man of moderate fortune (‘A nabob’ was the term used to describe a man who acquired a large fortune in India, so a chicken nabob describes a man who didn’t quite make it to riches. It’s a bit derogatory.)
7) A toad eater is:— a) obsequious
8) To be under the cat’s foot is:— c) to be dominated by a woman
9) To be a cat’s paw is:— b) to be used by someone else
10) To be foxed is:— c) to be drunk
11) A beak is:— d) a magistrate
12) To kick up a lark means:— c) to have fun
13) To shoot the crow means:— a) to leave without paying
I hope you enjoyed this little quiz.
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- Quizzes
- Answers: Ten Lords a’Leaping
- Answers: Regency Slang #1
- Answers: A Regency Christmas
- Answers: A Christmas Carol
- Answers: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Georgette Heyer
- Answers: The Winter Bride
- Answers: Regency Slang #2
- Answers to A New Word Wench
- Quiz — My Book Boyfriends
- English Names
- Answers to A Regency Christmas Quiz #2
- Answers to An Impossible Quiz
- Answers to Regency Slang Quiz No. #4
- Answers to “Ten lords a’leaping” quiz Number 2
- Answers to the quiz: Regency Slang with Food & Drink
- Answers to A Beastly Quiz
- Scoundrel’s Daughter — the pre-publication quiz
- Answers to Christmas Quiz #3
- Answers to the Quiz on The Rake’s Daughter.
- Answers to Another Christmas Quiz
- Answers to the Novels of Georgette Heyer Quiz
- Georgette Heyer Quiz #2 — the answers